REVIEWS & ARTICLES

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Selected fiction reviews

Podcast interview with author Alissa York about her new novel, Effigy.

Podcast interview with author Guy Gavriel Kay: Men writing women, what sparks inspiration, the changes writers undergo over their careers, intelligent characters, the boundaries writers of all genres face, and the strength of myth.

"Prescription for success," a review of Vincent Lam's Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, in Women's Post, Feb 2007.

"It's the Journey, not the arrival," a review of Journey Prize Stories 18, in The Globe and Mail, Saturday November 18, 2006.

"Love, loss, and the lines of time," a review of Madelein Thein's Certainty, in The Women's Post, September 2006.

"The Likelihood of Snow in Turkey," a review, with poet Adam Sol, of Orham Pamuk's Snow, Bookninja.com, Spring 2006.

"The short story, alive and thriving," a review of Journey prize stories 17 and Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec, in Books in Canada, May 2006.

"Persephone takes Miami," a review of Gail Godwin's Queen of the Underworld, in The Globe and Mail, Saturday April 8, 2006.

"Unlikely coalition," a review of A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, in Books in Canada, December 2005.

"Suras, sutures, sun and sweetness," a review of Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb, in The Women's Post, October 2005.

Selected articles

Bilingual baby
Parents may worry about confusion, but little kids are well equipped to parlez-vous when more than one language is spoken at home.
Today's Parent, Winter 2005.

Mothers and Daughters
When two generations become three, there's new emotional terrain to navigate.
Today's Parent, Autumn 2005.

Tough and tumble
Most toddlers outgrow aggression as they build verbal and social skills, but five to 10 per cent of Canadian kids continue on an aggressive path.
Canadian Living, October 2004.

Robin Duke
Caught in the act. (Profile of actor/comedienne Robin Duke.)
Today's Parent, June 2002.

Getting the word out
How to help children who stutter.
Today's Parent, January 2002.

You've got soliloquy
Email is not only replacing conversations, studies suggest. As Christine Fischer Guy reports, it's changing our whole style of communication--or lack of it.
Globe and Mail, Sat September 28, 2002.